Beyond Brain Death: The Case Against Brain Based Criteria for Human Death

By Michael Potts

Beyond Brain Death offers a provocative challenge to one of the most widely accepted conclusions of contemporary bioethics: the position that brain death marks the death of the human person. Eleven chapters by physicians, philosophers, and theologians present the case against brain-based criteria for human death. Each author believes that this position calls into question the moral acceptability of the transplantation of unpaired vital organs from brain-dead patients who have continuing function of the circulatory system. One strength of the book is its international approach to the question: contributors are from the United States, the United Kingdom, Liechtenstein, and Japan. This book will appeal to a wide audience, including physicians and other health care professionals, philosophers, theologians, medical sociologists, and social workers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402003668
• ISBN13: 9781402003660
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"